Ongoing in: "Burn it Down" and other Bernie Supporter quotes
Interesting report today on how Sanders supporters on Facebook are using mass-posting techniques to drive fairly vicious anti-Warren, -Biden, and -Buttigieg memes, "reminiscent of Russian bots and trolls in 2016."
Sanders supporters have weaponized Facebook to spread angry memes about his Democratic rivals
Users are using mass-posting technologies to flood Facebook with attacks on Elizabeth Warren and others
Matt Walters, an avid Bernie Sanders supporter, inside his home in Almont, Mich. Walters shares memes against Elizabeth Warren to several Facebook groups
A Democrat in Michigan scrolled through a surge of nasty Facebook memes about Sen. Elizabeth Warren last week before fixing on one that captured his growing dislike of the candidate. It depicted her smiling face as a mask. Behind it was Hillary Clinton.
Matt Walters, 64, a retired factory worker and supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), shared the image onward to eight Facebook groups and tens of thousands of potential eyeballs with a few taps on his smartphone — using a popular new mass-posting technique that allows ordinary Americans to operate with rapid-fire speed reminiscent of Russian bots and trolls in 2016.
In that small way, Walters contributed to a massive wave of hostile memes about Sanders’s Democratic rivals that both reflects the rising divisiveness in the party’s nominating contest and, in the view of social media experts, exacerbates it.
In related reporting from the FIE. Foreign influence on the 2020 is intensifying.
Sanders surpasses Trump in positive news coverage from Russia media.
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